President Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign
Organisation, accused Professor Attahiru Jega’s
Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, of conniving with General Muhammadu
Buhari of the All Progressive Congress, APC, to
subvert Nigeria’s Constitution.
Jonathan’s Director of Media and Publicity, Chief
Femi Fani-Kayode, at a press briefing, quoted
copiously from the Constitution and the Electoral
Act to support his claim that, whereas the law
expressly states that a candidate must present
and attach his or her personal documents to
INEC’s form, Buhari never did this in 2011 and
has just ignored that provision of the law again
while submitting his form for next month’s
election. On both scores, he said, INEC looked
the other way.
According to Fani-Kayode, this is a flagrant
abuse of the law and an encouragement on the
part of INEC to shield Buhari and put him above
the law.
However, in a swift reaction, the Buhari
Campaign Organisation’s Director of Publicity,
Mallam Garba Shehu, said Jonathan should
address the nation on the issue of Baga killings
and not waste the time of Nigerians on a
spurious certificate issue.
Shehu did not address the aspect of the
subversion of the law in his statement.
‘INEC IS SHIELDING BUHARI FROM THE LAW’

Fani-Kayode’s statement, titled, ‘CERTIFICATE
SAGA, WHY IS INEC INVOLVED IN A COVER-UP
FOR BUHARI’, reads:
“It has been brought to our attention that the
Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, either by error of omission or commission,
may be engaged in acts that do not in every
material particular support the advancement of
democracy, the rule of law and the strict
adherence to the letters and the spirit of
electoral laws in Nigeria.
“His inability to present even the minimum
requirement of just a leaving school
certificate questions his moral and other
credentials for pursuing the position of the
President of Nigeria. The current emerging
shocking disclosures bring to the fore how and
what qualifications were used to recruit him into
the military without a minimum school leaving
certificate, where he rose to the rank of a
general and even became the Head of State
through a military coup that truncated a
democratically elected government in 1983.
“Academic qualification is a threshold issue that
cannot be waived for any citizen, no matter how
highly placed and irrespective of whichever
region such individual comes from except as
provided by the Constitution. Thus the question
must be asked: Is Buhari or any other citizen
qualified to contest election into the Office of
the President without meeting the minimum
constitutional requirement?
A perusal of the Nigerian Constitution at Section
131 unequivocally states: ‘A person shall be
qualified for election to the Office of President
if: (a) He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth (b) He
has attained the age of forty years(c) He is a
member of a political party and is sponsored by
that political party; and (d) He has been
educated up to at least School certificate level
or its equivalent. It is to be noted that section
131 (d) is a specific directional order for all
candidates to show proof of education up to a
minimum standard not below school certificate
or its equivalent’.
“But from what INEC has published, Buhari has
not submitted any personal particular of
minimum school leaving certificate for the 2015
election and shockingly, from INEC documents
displayed in all constituencies, he also did not
submit anything in 2011 and never referred the
umpire then to the Secretary of the Military
Board as well as previous elections he contested
as evidenced in all available INEC records until
this current discovery.
“If the Constitution did not require proof, it would
not specify a minimum. To strengthen this claim,
the extant Electoral Act directs that such proof
must be sworn to by each candidate at a Court
under section 31 (2) to (5), viz (2), ‘The list of
information submitted by each candidate shall be
accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by the
candidate at the Federal High Court, High Court
of a state or the FCT, indicating that he has
fulfilled all the constitutional requirements for
election into that office (3) The Commission
shall within 7 days of the receipt of the personal
particular of the candidate,(emphasis here is
personal particular and not INEC form given to
fill nor court document like affidavit) and publish
same in the constituency where the candidate
intends to contest (4) A person may apply to the
Commission for a copy of nomination form
affidavit and any other document submitted by a
candidate at an election and the Commission
shall, upon payment of a prescribed fee, issue
the person with a certified copy of the
documents within 14 days (5) Any person who
has reasonable grounds to believe that any
information given in the affidavit or any
document submitted by that candidate is false
may file a suit at the federal high court, High
Court of a state or FCT against such person
seeking a declaration that the information
contained in the affidavit is false (6) If the court
determines that any of the information contained
in the affidavit of any document submitted by
that candidate is false, the court shall issue an
order disqualifying the candidate from contesting
the election.’

“First, in the INEC Form CF 001 for 2015 filled by
General Buhari at Section C of the form, the
instruction on the form clearly states, ‘Attach
evidence of all educational qualifications’ – THIS
WAS NOT DONE.
“Yet an affidavit was sworn otherwise. Curiously,
he did not refer INEC to this Board in 2011 in his
records available for anyone who cares to see
how Buhari has, in breach of the Constitution of
1999, contested elections without meeting the
mandatory constitutional requirement and has
been treated preferentially.
“THE QUESTION TO ASK INEC: IS BUHARI
ABOVE THE LAW OF THE LAND OR SHOULD WE
SUSPEND OR AMEND THE LAW TO
ACCOMMODATE HIM.
“It is common knowledge that Military Board like
any others do not keep or retain original copies
of personal particulars of individuals such as
birth certificates, passports, and academic
credentials of any personnel, especially retired
personnel after over three decades. It must be
stated that INEC erred in law by publishing the
name of a candidate without receiving the
personal particulars of the candidate within 7
days of receiving his nomination forms as
indicated in Section 31(3).
“This is indeed a tragedy illustrating what Nigeria
has become, that an individual is so powerful
that the law has to be ignored to accommodate
him. Certainly, INEC printed nomination forms or
High Court affidavits are in no way or by any
stretch of definitions, the same as personal
particulars such as school leaving certificate.
The Nigerian Constitution has now been finally
rubbished and no longer respected.
“The whole essence of the provision of the law,
as quoted above, for citizens to apply for
certified copies of such personal particulars is
now defeated. How could citizens obtain from
INEC a certified true copy as required by law
when INEC has been referred to the Secretary of
Military Board? That the candidate, General
Buhari, from records available, has perpetuated
this disdain for due democratic process, in a
serial form since the beginning of this
democratic dispensation, shows that our
democracy is in trouble because it is now the
rule of men and not the rule of law. This
shameful development when added to the weight
of his record of civil rights abuses, while in
office, show he is an incorrigible anti-democratic
character.
“That INEC, saddled with a statutory duty to
promote good knowledge and practices of
democracy (Section 1(2) of the extant Electoral
Act) published as a candidate in all its offices
the affidavit of a candidate whose personal
particulars it did not receive within the
prescribed time frame by law is most
unfortunate to say the least.
Our conclusion: BUHARI, FROM THE ABOVE, IS
NOT QUALIFIED TO CONTEST THE 2015
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION”.
ADDRESS THE NATION ON BAGA – BUHARI
In a statement, yesterday, by the Director, Media
and Publicity of APC Presidential Campaign
Organisation, Mallam Garba Shehu, rather than
PDP wasting its energy on alleged certificate
saga of Buhari, Jonathan should address the
nation on the massacre in Baga town which “the
Amnesty International has described as the
single most deadly incident since the unfortunate
insurgency started in the country”.
Shehu, who noted that the PDP had dwelt so
much on the issue of academic certificate of its
candidate, Buhari, stressed that there were
more pressing issues for the government
controlled by the party to address.
He said, “This government should not go on
being insensitive. They have to account to
Nigerians.The issue of certificate of General
Buhari is a non-issue as everyone knows that
Buhari is a product of Daura Primary School,
Katsina Provisional Secondary School (now
Government College, Katsina) and the Nigerian
Military Training College. This is in addition to
several other courses he attended at home and
abroad.”
According to the statement, while the PDP
government has failed in its duty and
responsibilities to the citizens and the nation, it
has intensified effort to pull wool over the eyes
of Nigerians.
He continued, ” A leading member of the party,
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, a few
days ago, informed Nigerians that in politics, you
must tell lies. Nigerians should take their cue
from there.
“Unfortunately, PDP has become a political party
that is so fixated with keeping an incompetent
government in power and is lustfully engaged in
pursuing a non-issue about an individual’s
academic qualifications.”

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